Teaspoon



Sept. 28, 1921;. 1,601,613

J. FENYVE'S TEAS POON Filed March 19, I926 WITNESSES INVENTOR JAM ATTORNEYS Patented Slept. 28, 1925. I I r UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FENYVES, OF NEW YORK, N. 'Y.

= TEASPOON.

Application filed March 19, 1926. Serial No. 96,017.

The present invention is concerned with wardly turned guide flanges 16 carried by an the provision of a spoon adapted to serve as operating extension 17 of the cover 12. The a container for tea leaves, as well as serve reduced straight intermediate portion of the its usual function as a stirrer. handle 10 delines stop shoulders 18 engage- An object of the invention is to provide able with the shoulders 16 as the cover is a spoon of this character equipped with a slidably retracted. Flanges 16 engage the sliding cover and so constructed that "the inclined faces of the handle extension 15 cover may be readily manually manipulated to limit the forward sliding movement'of 60 by the hand holding the spoon to permit the the cover.

scooping of tea leaves into the spoon or the Either or both the handle and cover may discharge of leaves therefrom. be formed with a series of apertures 19 so Another object of the invention is to prothat water may flow freely into and out of vice spoon of simple, practical construc- I the bowl of the spoon when tea leaves ar 65 tion which will be highly e'fiicient in use, housed therein.

which rill be of attractive appearance and 3 The 111" 111873 of using the device will be obwhich will lend itself to economical inanuvious. 1116 bowl of the spoon is partially facture. or completely filled with tea leaves, the cov- Vvith the above noted and other objects or 12 is slid forwardly to cover the bowl and 7 0 in view, the invention consists in certain the spoon is dipped into a cup of hot wa- 20 novel features of construction and combinater and stirred until tea of the desired tions and arrangements of parts, as will be strength is formed. For convenience in mamore fully hereinafter set forth and pointnipulating the sliding cover, I preferably ed out in the claim. The invention may be form an offset thumb piece 20 on the han- 75 more fully understood from the following dle extension 17 of the cover. A user may description in connection with the accomthus hold the spoonin one hand and with panying drawings, whereinthe thumb of the same hand readily ma Figure 1 is a plan view of a spoon embodynipulate the thumb piece 20 to slide the cover ing the inventioin 2 in either direction, either to scoop dry tea so Figure 2 is a longitudinal sec ional view leaves or to discharge used tea leaves. therethrough on the line 2--2 of Figurel. While I have illustrated a preferred Figures 3 and d are transverse sectional embodiment of the invention, various views on th lines 33 and tl h respectively changes and alterations might be made in the of Figure 2; general form and arrangement of parts de- 85 The spoon includes a handle portion 10, scribed without departing from the invenw iich may be of any desired or amental tion. ll11(39,1 do not wish to limit myself to shape and general appearance, the handle he details set forth, but shall consider myportion being integral with a bowl 11. self at liberty to make such changes and al- While the exact shape of the bowl is immaterations as fairly fall within the spirit and 0 terial, l prefer to utilize a bowl having a scope of the appended claim.

40 ectangular open top for the proper recep- Having thus described my invention, 1 tion and guidance of a generally rectangular claim: I cover member 12. A teaspoon including a bowl, a handle con The cover member 12 is formed at its lat nected thereto and formed with a reduced eral edges with depending flanges 13 emstraight intermediate portion, a sliding cover bracing the sides of the bowl 11. for the bowl, a handle extension on the cov- The cover at its rear end may include a or including flanges embracing the straight substantially triangular extension 1 1 a daptportion of the handle, and shoulders on the ed to overlie the similarly shaped end 15 of handle at the end of the reduced portion the handle 10. From the body of the handle engageable with the flanges to limit the slidto the flared portion 15, the handle is prefing movement of the cover.

erably straight and of uniform width for the I reception of a pair of downwardly'and in- JOSEPH FENYVES. 

